Prometheus is a Titan, culture hero, and trickster figure who is credited with the creation of humanity from clay, and who defies the gods by stealing fire and giving it to humanity as civilization. Prometheus is known for his intelligence and as a champion of humankind
The punishment of Prometheus as a consequence of the theft is a The immortal was bound to a rock, where each day an eagle, the emblem of Zeus, was sent to eat Prometheus' liver, which would then grow back to be eaten again, eternally.
You call yourself a secular Buddhist, what does that mean? I’m a Buddhist Buddhist. I’m a Libran too. I had a really crap birthday this year I fell backwards down the stairs. Didn’t get hurt but I am an old lady so not a great stunt to start the day with. But hey, it was probably a better start to the day than you got on yours!! American Scientist seems like an oxymoron rather than a periodical. Science is thousands of years old, your country is only 250 years old and all your scientists are imported. My uncle worked on the fledgling NASA Apollo they recruited him from the Royal Navy. Treated him like a king, then when the missions were shelved dropped him like a stone. No more medical, no more money, I’ll health and poverty beckoned. New Scientist is an English publication that is pretty good, it is more of a quantum sort of prediction led journal. Ask your people if I can send it into you. How’s your liver doing? T
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Unfortunately, as much as the media wants to point the finger solely at Trump, the Kurds have been getting this neglect from USA many times before. The main difference this time around is the Kurds had vocally expressed faith in Trump's early promises and are understandably angry at the broken trust.
Obama had promised military aid for the Kurds' independence during his presidency but retracted when the strong anti-war rhetoric prominent at the time overturned him. Before that was Bush who was very wish-washy about dealing with them at all due to similar economic reasons as Trump (protect the oil trade through alliance with Turkey, etc.). Almost nothing significant from Clinton. And so on, etc.
And remember, it was Western civilization that made them landless to begin with. From the BBC:
"Why don't they have a state? Despite their long history, the Kurds have never achieved a permanent nation state
In the early 20th Century, many Kurds began to consider the creation of a homeland - generally referred to as "Kurdistan". After World War One and the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, the victorious Western allies made provision for a Kurdish state in the 1920 Treaty of Sevres.
Such hopes were dashed three years later, however, when the Treaty of Lausanne, which set the boundaries of modern Turkey, made no provision for a Kurdish state and left Kurds with minority status in their respective countries. Over the next 80 years, any move by Kurds to set up an independent state was brutally quashed."
Keeping that in mind, the recent change of heart just stabs all the more deeper. :<
I'm glad that you have enough compassion for human goodness and empathy. I can only hope it can be a voice to stay away from warfare.
All I can say is WOW! vI never expected this. THere are so many things wrong with this scenario. First, that a guy who is literally nothing, a ghost, has triggered so many people lashing out at him. He is dead. In a way more dead than even his victims. He knows it. Thats why he left stuff out. He hopes he will be able to evoke compassion, from someone. And He isnt likely going to get it if he tell all of the grisly details. But he is still not 100% at fault. When you have guards who are more suitable to be in there than the guy s they are guarding...well shit like this happens. Indiana still hasn't learned there lesson. Newcastle 2007. I was there. I saw the news and I experiernced the guard who laid hands on an inmate. It was because he didnt have the proper uniform. But so what if it had been for drugs? THat one foolish ingnorant person says Love was justified in being cuffed and beaten because he had drugs? you are sick. Please seek help. Seriously. I bet youo are a prison official. Drugs are NO reason to hand cuff and beat a man to the point he was infirm. The day of the 2007 riot, I saw the news after. They claimed it was because we were moved acrosss the country. They left out the part about physical abuse from guards. Cruel and Unusual punishment is what the founders called it. They also left out the parts where inmates from my state escorted females out of the prison to save them from getting raped from the pitiful and disgusting sex offenders that none of us knew were among the ranks of the Indiana guys. Otherwise it would have been a much different day. By time we found out there was massive smoke heaps and live ammo being fired. It was a mess. NO one got raped though. The guard at the infirmary stabbed himeself the day he turned a blind eye to his abusing collegues. The war is not between the convicts and the guards. It is between good and evil. And no one ever thinks they are on the side of evil. But the devils finest trick is convincing people he does not exist. But he does. You all know it. Anyone who hasnt found any sort pf peace since 1985? Well I would reevaluate the way you see this situation. I had to. 10 and a half years with No victim. Try doing that. Then you will know what true injustice looks and feels like. Everything else has a reason. It might not be a good one. But with no victim there can be no reason. I wish you all peace love and empathy
I hope you continue talking about this book because it interests me. I have listened to one of the author's interviews in the past regarding their findings in the justice system, and I didn't know that they co-wrote a book until just now. Thanks to you, I'll be on the look out for it! :)
Patrick Melling. You may as well be standing in a prison cell beside Trotter. You are locked up too. Until the narrative in prisons is changed that the guard is a 'target' the enemy, nothing will change. I've known violence in my life. A man cut my father's throat open in front of me.He did it with a beer bottle that he smashed against a counter top. I still remember the brown glass of the bottle, the remaining green label hanging off it and the red of the blood pumping from his neck, his hand clenched around it and his fingers with rivers pouring through them. He didn't die, lived to tell the tale. No one went to jail for it.But I became very unBuddhist for several years plotting and dreaming of revenge. The prison system has ravaged Christopher Trotter. You got your 'pound of flesh I suggest you do one of two things, forget him or forgive him. I'm not the person I was in 1985, neither are you and Christopher Trotter maybe isn't With hope. T
CONT. You had your day in court. The officer at the infirmary took the stand. The prosecutor pointed at you and asked the officer, "is this the man that stabbed you the morning of Feb 1st". The officers reply was "no". The prosecutor somewhat puzzled responded, "that's not the man the stabbed you"? Officers reply, "no...that's the man that tried to kill me". RESULT: Trotter is convicted of attempted murder on top of other charges. On the afternoon of Feb 1st 1985, I reported to work. Almost upon arriving I was told that an emergency phone call was received. I was told MY FATHER WAS IN THE HOSPITAL. I immediately set out on the 130 mile drive to St. Johns in Anderson, IN. Whatever reason it was, I tuned into a local AM radio station in Marion, IN. Coincidentally they were reporting the news at that very moment. Then I heard this, "here's an update on the situation at the Pendleton reformatory". They stated that there was a riot, a cell block had been overtaken, officers have been injured, one officer (Jack Melling) was critical. Now I can't get there fast enough. Now I'm feeling rage, and helplessness. I'll never forget that day! Nor have I ever forgotten your name. The only justice that I believe was not handed down in this incident was that the tower guard was never charged as an accessory to attempted murder. TROTTER, YOU ARE NO VICTIM HERE. YOUR SENTENCE IS COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED AND WARRANTED. YOU EARNED IT...YOU DESERVE IT!!! MY NAME IS PATRICK MELLING AND YES THAT WAS MY FATHER YOU TRIED TO MURDER THAT MORNING. THE ONLY SOLACE I HAVE IS THAT YOU WILL NEVER BE FREE. ONE HELL OF A PRICE TO PAY FOR TRYING TO "SAVE A LIFE" OF A CONVICTED MURDERER, RAPIST, CAREER CRIMINAL.
Christopher. You began your letter, 'Dear Outside World' I begin my letter, 'Dear Inside World' Impulsive, angry, enraged, furious,most human beings at one time or another run the gamut of those emotions. But normally we internalize them and are rational mind warns of the consequences of those actions and we calm down, or walk away. Men are far more impulsive than women, women at more emotional, we tend to shout scream throw things. You got good and mad that day you attacked the guard. You felt you had to put a perceived wrong to rights. It wasn't your job. There is a rule among prisoners that the guards are the enemy. You bought into that. The whole love hate and the jail and the jailers hate you. They don't hate you. At their very worst they are 'indifferent' to you. They have a job to do and if they didn't do it your family and the people you love would be in danger. You need to open your eyes and your ears and start paying attention to who is trying to reprogram you and why. You aren’t reviled. You are loved. You are a child of the cosmos, and a person in the world. I hadn’t noticed the post was dated January of this year. It popped up as new on my notification. Reply back here to me if you can. I am on the move and not at home for a while. Thank you.
1985 was a lifetime ago. The parole board needs to be convinced that person of violence is no more. Maya Angelou said, When I knew better I did better. Do better. Be better. Think better. Act better. Isn't it ironic that the name of the person you tried to avenge, and who made all this trouble for you was named 'Love' T
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Have a good day, warm greetings,
Julia
The punishment of Prometheus as a consequence of the theft is a The immortal was bound to a rock, where each day an eagle, the emblem of Zeus, was sent to eat Prometheus' liver, which would then grow back to be eaten again, eternally.
You call yourself a secular Buddhist, what does that mean? I’m a Buddhist Buddhist.
I’m a Libran too. I had a really crap birthday this year I fell backwards down the stairs. Didn’t get hurt but I am an old lady so not a great stunt to start the day with. But hey, it was probably a better start to the day than you got on yours!!
American Scientist seems like an oxymoron rather than a periodical. Science is thousands of years old, your country is only 250 years old and all your scientists are imported. My uncle worked on the fledgling NASA Apollo they recruited him from the Royal Navy. Treated him like a king, then when the missions were shelved dropped him like a stone. No more medical, no more money, I’ll health and poverty beckoned.
New Scientist is an English publication that is pretty good, it is more of a quantum sort of prediction led journal. Ask your people if I can send it into you.
How’s your liver doing?
T
Unfortunately, as much as the media wants to point the finger solely at Trump, the Kurds have been getting this neglect from USA many times before. The main difference this time around is the Kurds had vocally expressed faith in Trump's early promises and are understandably angry at the broken trust.
Obama had promised military aid for the Kurds' independence during his presidency but retracted when the strong anti-war rhetoric prominent at the time overturned him. Before that was Bush who was very wish-washy about dealing with them at all due to similar economic reasons as Trump (protect the oil trade through alliance with Turkey, etc.). Almost nothing significant from Clinton. And so on, etc.
And remember, it was Western civilization that made them landless to begin with. From the BBC:
"Why don't they have a state?
Despite their long history, the Kurds have never achieved a permanent nation state
In the early 20th Century, many Kurds began to consider the creation of a homeland - generally referred to as "Kurdistan". After World War One and the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, the victorious Western allies made provision for a Kurdish state in the 1920 Treaty of Sevres.
Such hopes were dashed three years later, however, when the Treaty of Lausanne, which set the boundaries of modern Turkey, made no provision for a Kurdish state and left Kurds with minority status in their respective countries. Over the next 80 years, any move by Kurds to set up an independent state was brutally quashed."
Keeping that in mind, the recent change of heart just stabs all the more deeper. :<
I'm glad that you have enough compassion for human goodness and empathy. I can only hope it can be a voice to stay away from warfare.
The day of the 2007 riot, I saw the news after. They claimed it was because we were moved acrosss the country. They left out the part about physical abuse from guards. Cruel and Unusual punishment is what the founders called it. They also left out the parts where inmates from my state escorted females out of the prison to save them from getting raped from the pitiful and disgusting sex offenders that none of us knew were among the ranks of the Indiana guys. Otherwise it would have been a much different day. By time we found out there was massive smoke heaps and live ammo being fired. It was a mess. NO one got raped though.
The guard at the infirmary stabbed himeself the day he turned a blind eye to his abusing collegues.
The war is not between the convicts and the guards. It is between good and evil. And no one ever thinks they are on the side of evil. But the devils finest trick is convincing people he does not exist. But he does. You all know it. Anyone who hasnt found any sort pf peace since 1985? Well I would reevaluate the way you see this situation. I had to. 10 and a half years with No victim. Try doing that. Then you will know what true injustice looks and feels like. Everything else has a reason. It might not be a good one. But with no victim there can be no reason. I wish you all peace love and empathy
I hope you continue talking about this book because it interests me. I have listened to one of the author's interviews in the past regarding their findings in the justice system, and I didn't know that they co-wrote a book until just now. Thanks to you, I'll be on the look out for it! :)
Until the narrative in prisons is changed that the guard is a 'target' the enemy, nothing will change.
I've known violence in my life. A man cut my father's throat open in front of me.He did it with a beer bottle that he smashed against a counter top. I still remember the brown glass of the bottle, the remaining green label hanging off it and the red of the blood pumping from his neck, his hand clenched around it and his fingers with rivers pouring through them.
He didn't die, lived to tell the tale. No one went to jail for it.But I became very unBuddhist for several years plotting and dreaming of revenge.
The prison system has ravaged Christopher Trotter. You got your 'pound of flesh
I suggest you do one of two things, forget him or forgive him.
I'm not the person I was in 1985, neither are you and Christopher Trotter maybe isn't
With hope.
T
Sending love from here in the UK
T
You had your day in court. The officer at the infirmary took the stand. The prosecutor pointed at you and asked the officer, "is this the man that stabbed you the morning of Feb 1st". The officers reply was "no". The prosecutor somewhat puzzled responded, "that's not the man the stabbed you"? Officers reply, "no...that's the man that tried to kill me". RESULT: Trotter is convicted of attempted murder on top of other charges.
On the afternoon of Feb 1st 1985, I reported to work. Almost upon arriving I was told that an emergency phone call was received. I was told MY FATHER WAS IN THE HOSPITAL. I immediately set out on the 130 mile drive to St. Johns in Anderson, IN. Whatever reason it was, I tuned into a local AM radio station in Marion, IN. Coincidentally they were reporting the news at that very moment. Then I heard this, "here's an update on the situation at the Pendleton reformatory". They stated that there was a riot, a cell block had been overtaken, officers have been injured, one officer (Jack Melling) was critical. Now I can't get there fast enough. Now I'm feeling rage, and helplessness.
I'll never forget that day! Nor have I ever forgotten your name. The only justice that I believe was not handed down in this incident was that the tower guard was never charged as an accessory to attempted murder.
TROTTER, YOU ARE NO VICTIM HERE. YOUR SENTENCE IS COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED AND WARRANTED. YOU EARNED IT...YOU DESERVE IT!!!
MY NAME IS PATRICK MELLING AND YES THAT WAS MY FATHER YOU TRIED TO MURDER THAT MORNING.
THE ONLY SOLACE I HAVE IS THAT YOU WILL NEVER BE FREE.
ONE HELL OF A PRICE TO PAY FOR TRYING TO "SAVE A LIFE" OF A CONVICTED MURDERER, RAPIST, CAREER CRIMINAL.
You began your letter, 'Dear Outside World'
I begin my letter, 'Dear Inside World'
Impulsive, angry, enraged, furious,most human beings at one time or another run the gamut of those emotions. But normally we internalize them and are rational mind warns of the consequences of those actions and we calm down, or walk away. Men are far more impulsive than women, women at more emotional, we tend to shout scream throw things.
You got good and mad that day you attacked the guard. You felt you had to put a perceived wrong to rights.
It wasn't your job.
There is a rule among prisoners that the guards are the enemy.
You bought into that. The whole love hate and the jail and the jailers hate you.
They don't hate you. At their very worst they are 'indifferent' to you. They have a job to do and if they didn't do it your family and the people you love would be in danger.
You need to open your eyes and your ears and start paying attention to who is trying to reprogram you and why.
You aren’t reviled. You are loved. You are a child of the cosmos, and a person in the world.
I hadn’t noticed the post was dated January of this year. It popped up as new on my notification.
Reply back here to me if you can. I am on the move and not at home for a while.
Thank you.
1985 was a lifetime ago. The parole board needs to be convinced that person of violence is no more.
Maya Angelou said, When I knew better I did better.
Do better. Be better. Think better. Act better.
Isn't it ironic that the name of the person you tried to avenge, and who made all this trouble for you was named 'Love'
T